David Klug's Biography

David Klug, Co-Founder/Professor, Imperial College London

Professor David Klug is chair of Chemical Biophysics in the Chemistry Department at Imperial College London. He founded and chairs the Institute of Chemical Biology (ICB) (www.chemicalbiology.ac.uk ) a network of over 70 research groups collaborating across the physical sciences-life sciences interface. He leads the Single Cell Proteomics Project of the ICB (www.singlecellanalysis.ac.uk) a collaboration between eight research groups developing novel platform technologies for high sensitivity high throughput analysis. Key projects include Microfluidic capture chips with single molecule readout, Proteome-On-A-Chip technology and optical analogues of 2DNMR. Biological problems are largely focused on protein interactions with other proteins, drugs and metabolites.